About a year ago I stopped making regular updates to this blog to concentrate on my Namnesia Antidote blog. While that is an ongoing effort, I am starting what should be about a year long effort to revitalize the concept of a "This Day in History" blog. I have decided to leave this blog intact and as-is, using a new "This Day in History 2.0" blog for my expanded and full version. Please feel free to email with your ideas. The two tables below should allow you to find a posting for the "Day in History" you wish to research.

Monday, July 30, 2007

July 30......

July 30 is the 211th (212th in leap years) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 154 days remaining in the year on this date.

Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Silence "Learn to be quiet enough to hear the sound of the genuine within yourself, so that you can hear it in other people." — Marian Wright Edelman

Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Gynephobia "The feminist agenda is not about equal rights for women. It is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism, and become lesbians." — Pat Robertson

Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: On Politics "Poultry waste . . . is something that continues to threaten our country." — Tom Daschle, senator from South Dakota

Thought for the day: "Too many pray for peace with their fists clenched."

{Disclaimer: I have attempted to give credit to the many different sources that I get entries. Any failure to do so is unintentional. Any statement enclosed by brackets like these are the opinion of the blogger, A Proud Liberal.}

NASA ASTRONOMY PICTURE OF THE DAY

The Four Suns of HD 98800

Illustration Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle (SSC)Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation

EVENTS

● 579 - Benedict I ends his reign as Catholic Pope

● 657 - St Vitalian begins his reign as Catholic Pope

● 1419 - First Defenestration of Prague.

● 1502 - Christopher Columbus lands at Guanaja in the Bay Islands off the coast of Honduras during his fourth voyage. Indians meet Columbus' sailors at Guanjara, off the coast of Honduras. {Far too many find this to be literally the end of their lives.}

● 1608 - At Ticonderoga (now Crown Point, New York), Samuel de Champlain shoots and kills two Iroquois chiefs. This was to set the tone for French-Iroquois relations for the next one hundred years.

● 1619 - In Jamestown, Virginia, the first representative assembly in the Americas, the House of Burgesses, convenes for the first time.

● 1629 - An earthquake in Naples, Italy kills 10,000 people.

● 1629 - The Puritans of Salem, Mass. appointed Francis Higginson as their teacher and Samuel Skelton as their pastor. The church covenant, composed afterward by these two men, allowed into communion only those who could prove a sound doctrinal knowledge and an experience of grace in their lives.

● 1718 - Death of William Penn, 74, English Quaker and founder of American colony of Pennsylvania. Penn permitted in his colony all forms of public worship compatible with monotheism and religious liberty.

● 1792 - The French national anthem "La Marseillaise" by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, was first sung by 500 Marseillaisian in Paris.

● 1822 - Pioneer church founder James Varick, 72, was consecrated the first bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church.

● 1825 - Malden Island discovered.

● 1836 - 1st English newspaper published in Hawaii

● 1839 - Slave rebels, take over slaver Amistad

● 1844 - 1st US yacht club organized, NY Yacht Club

● 1863 - Indian Wars: Chief Pocatello of the Shoshone tribe signs the Treaty of Box Elder, promising to stop harassing the emigrant trails in southern Idaho and northern Utah.

● 1863 - President Lincoln issues "eye-for-eye" order to shoot a rebel prisoner for every black prisoner shot. {Creating a terrible extension of Gandhi's observation that in a country that practices an eye for an eye, there is a country full of blind men.}

● 1863 - Henry Ford, the American automobile manufacturer who founded the Ford Motor Company, was born.

● 1864 - American Civil War: Battle of the Crater - Union forces attempt to break Confederate lines by exploding a large bomb under their trenches.

● 1866 - Police shoot into an assembly of blacks outside the Mechanics Institute in New Orleans, and a crowd of whites then storm the hall. By the time federal troops restored order, 38 were dead and 136 wounded--almost all of them black.

● 1867 - Congress sets up Peace Commission with three stated objectives - (1) to end Indian Wars by giving them whatever they wanted; (2) to make peaceful farmers of them; and (3) to get their permission to build railroads across the plains. As with most peace commissions, the government ignored the objectives and did what it wanted to anyway.

● 1942 - The WAVES were created by legislation signed by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The members of the Women's Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service were a part of the U.S. Navy.

● 1945 - The USS Indianapolis was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine. The ship had just delivered key components of the Hiroshima atomic bomb to the Pacific island of Tinian. Only 316 out of 1,196 men aboard survived the attack.

● 1946 - 1st rocket attains 100 mi (167 km) altitude, White Sands, NM

● 1951 - E L Johnson discovers asteroid #2718

● 1956 - A Joint resolution of the U.S. Congress is signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, authorizing "In God We Trust" as the U.S. national motto.

● 1956 - Birth of Anita Hill, whose testimony of sexual harassment in Judge Clarence Thomas' hearings for confirmation to the U.S. Supreme Court became a lightning rod for sexual harassment, gender, and race debate.

● 1965 - U.S. President Johnson signed into law Social Security Act that established Medicare and Medicaid. It went into effect the following year.

● 1967 - Four die during riots in black sections of Milwaukee.

● 1969 - Vietnam War: US President Richard M. Nixon makes an unscheduled visit to South Vietnam and meets with President Nguyen Van Thieu and with U.S. military commanders.

● 1986 - Parents appeal for missing agent; The parents of missing London estate agent Suzy Lamplugh make an emotional appeal for her safe return.

● 1990 - Women and children massacred by army, Liberia, Africa.

● 1991 - Quebec natives announce they will determine their own course if Quebec secedes from Canada.

● 1996 - A federal law enforcement source said that security guard Richard Jewell had become the focus of the investigation into the bombing at Centennial Olympic Park. Jewell was later cleared as a suspect.

● 1996 - Four Ploughshares activists in England acquitted of all charges on the basis of preventing a greater crime, after having extensively damaged an F-16 fighter jet set to be sold to the Indonesian government in its genocidal occupation of East Timor. Liverpool, England.

● 1996 - Actress Claudette Colbert died at age 92.

● 1997 - 14 Israelis were killed in a double suicide bombing in a Jerusalem marketplace. The Islamist group Hamas claimed responsibility for the bombings.

● 1997 - Eighteen lives are lost in the Thredbo Landslide in New South Wales, Australia.

● 1998 - A group of Ohio machine-shop workers (who call themselves the Lucky 13) won the $295.7 million Powerball jackpot. It was the largest-ever American lottery.

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